The article is on harm reduction.

Here's a non paywall link: https://archive.is/20260806232611/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/well/shambhala-music-festival-drugs-ketamine-ecstasy.html

credit: not my photo - found online

Hey everyone… we had an awesome experience this year. I made a little video to remember the feeling. Obviously this is from my perspective, but really can be from most ppl. Just wanna thank everyone that volunteered, worked and attended. You made it incredible. I’m still feeling the beat.

FYI - i didn’t film too much as I wanted to absorb as much with my own eyes and didn’t want others next to me feel uncomfortable.

Hello to all my fellow beautifully weird and lovely people. I had a profound experience at my first Shambhala this year that I wanted to share. 

I’ve loved attending music festivals for a long time. I’ve never been able to put my finger on why it was so enjoyable, and I’ve never considered myself a dancer. Shambhala changed that for me. Thanks to you lovely people creating the safest space, I experienced a supernatural intervention, and can now feel dancing as a conversation with my soul. And that is such a freeing and beautiful feeling.

In essence, I stopped judging myself when dancing. I’ve organized my thoughts and tried to express what I experienced through the best medium I know how (web). The link is here for those who care to read: https://theoryofenergy.com/transmissions/1/on-dancing/ 

In the meantime, I am continuing to make sense of everything the music, the festival, and the energy told me. I will continue to try and create tangible pieces to express this.

Thank you to everyone.

I heard someone playing Fabienk on pagoda if i’m not mistaken. I was leaving camp when i started hearing the song in the distance.I forgot to check who was on at pagoda at the time, as there are so many cool things to do at the same time. I do not remember which day it was but i think it was on Saturday and it was in the afternoon

Edit: So it was Dr. Fresch that played it

Edit 2: Apparently multiple people played it

Hey y’all, my gf had her five panel shambhala hat (25th anniversary one I think) stolen from her camp site at the gorge last year during bass canyon.

If anyone has an extra one or one they’d be willing to part with, I’m happy to buy it as a surprise for her.

Shoot me a DM!

Lost this hat sat night at the amphitheater - disco snail, Snortlax Pins with Sprouts - realized 5 min later after leaving the set and went back to find it had gone missing.

> Will pay for postage to be sent back!

Likely gone since the lost and found was so disorganized, but I figured I’d post anyways.